Re: [SOLVED] Blue tint on youtube videos. (Nvidia or flash problem)

Ok, here are my issues with flash:

1. Already as it is, flash decoding is getting VERY cpu intensive. If I disable hardware acceleration, it will be even worse, making my laptop a hotplate. 2. I don't care about security. I just want smooth and cpu-light flash playback which seems to be a holy grail on linux since I first started with it in 2006.3. I installed the libvdpau-git-flashpatch package from AUR and at the end it prompted me to uninstall libvdpau, which I did. I rebooted. The changes in the conf file were already there as per instruction. And things still are blue and orange, except in the wrong order.

Re: [SOLVED] Blue tint on youtube videos. (Nvidia or flash problem)

Sorry for necrobumping but after reading the whole 7 pages this is everything but solved. Has anyone found a solution to this problem yet?

Only Adobe can provide a solution, but they stopped updating flash except for security fixes. However, libvdpau works around it, so you should not see this issue anymore.

Well there is no blue tint but if I enable HW acc in mms.cfg it crashes constantly (it crashes within the first second of the video)export VDPAU_NVIDIA_NO_OVERLAY=1 does not help and if I turn it off I don't get the gpu acceleration and my weak processor goes to 100% even at 360p.

Re: [SOLVED] Blue tint on youtube videos. (Nvidia or flash problem)

Since this thread comes up high in search results for things like 'midori flash blue' and since this issue remains present in Midori (and reportedly some other browsers), I thought i'd post some current situation info:

was accepted upstream, but the issue remains present with Youtube and some other flash videos, for some browsers.

I didn't test using earlier versions of Flash. From what i've been reading i expect it would work, but according to earlier posts in this thread; earlier 11.x versions come with a security risk but the latest 10.x doesn't have a security risk, however it is only 32bit and thus requires multilib and what not for 64bit users.

Right-clicking a flash video, going into settings and turning off hardware acceleration did fix the issue for me, but it also does disable HW acceleration and i watch one of my CPU cores getting smashed while i play higher quality Youtube vids. I expect this will be unacceptable for people on older or weak CPU or on a portable system with power usage and/or heat concerns.

Some other fixes in this thread didn't work for me.

What does still work is that 'nasty hack' patch on page 1:

Gusar wrote:

Flash issue when using vdpau. A nvidia developer created a hack, I'm trying to find it right now...

of which i just put a package in AUR for because earlier mentioned AUR packages seem to now be gone (I assume due to the bug being fixed in Firefox and thus largely disregarded)(Use the above AUR package at your own risk, i didn't read every git commit since then and check if there was security fixes.)

Re: [SOLVED] Blue tint on youtube videos. (Nvidia or flash problem)

10.x is a security vulnerability too nowadays, Adobe is not updating it anymore.

And while the 'nasty hack' still works, there are 'non-nasty' attempts to get all browsers working, give this patch a try: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/v … 00079.html. Especially check if it doesn't screw up video playback elsewhere, there's some people on the mailing list who think it might.

Then there's this patch, but it targets specifically Opera and Konqueror, so probably won't work with Midori.

Re: [SOLVED] Blue tint on youtube videos. (Nvidia or flash problem)

Gusar wrote:

10.x is a security vulnerability too nowadays, Adobe is not updating it anymore.And while the 'nasty hack' still works, there are 'non-nasty' attempts to get all browsers working, give this patch a try: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/v … 00079.html. Especially check if it doesn't screw up video playback elsewhere, there's some people on the mailing list who think it might.

With that in mind i'll happily request my AUR package be renamed to libvdpau-midori-flashfix or something, if someone wants to package the above patch against current libvdpau and use the name i currently am.

Gusar wrote:

Then there's this patch, but it targets specifically Opera and Konqueror, so probably won't work with Midori.